The Pre-1993 Root

Zeno Dickson and Chaitanyo

In a sentence: not a divergence but the soil, the pre-1993 teachers who carried the system to America and were later written out of its official story.

System and author. The teaching as it existed and was carried before the canonical American founding, in the hands of the figures who brought it to the United States and taught it in the earliest period.

Relationship to Ra. The root the canon grew from and, in the institutional record, the most thoroughly erased. By their own first-person account, the couple who taught and published as Zeno and Chaitanyo founded the American operation of Human Design in 1993 and were among the system’s first licensed analysts. They collected the founder from the airport, hosted the first American lecture in Taos in November 1993 and the first trainings that December, and were certified among the very first American analysts before that year was out. The company they formed at the founder’s request, New Sun Services America, was his exclusive American representative.¹

Current status. Zeno died in March 2020; Chaitanyo continues the practice and maintains the couple’s public archive.

Where it sits. This is not a divergence downstream of the canon but the soil beneath it. Its removal from the official history is the entire subject of the companion volume: the lineage has a root older than the institution that claims it, and the names at that root were removed from the story the institution tells.

Published works. Zeno Dickson and Chaitanyo Taschler, Human Design Revealed (Zen Human Design, 2015); the couple’s first-person archive at humandesignsystem.com/archive.

Cross-references. ZENO, throughout; The Voice on Ibiza, the chapter on the transmission to America.